A brand new design collaboration with Carrie Meredith from “eyeliner on a cat” blog is an abstraction of texture and synesthetic color (and a slight play on words: guimauve) which translates to “Silk Marshmallow”.
There’s a kind of dada-esque quality to the name, which I love, that speaks to the silky ‘texture’ of the fragrance and it’s overall “grey-blue-violet” tonality (connoted by the main orris note and is the ‘mauve’ reference). The odd (but wonderful) balance of orris – violet – animalic nuances counterbalanced with gourmand notes of anise and cocoa beans is quite unexpected. The gourmand aspects bring the idea of “marshmallow” into a new focus.
Guimauve de Soie is unlike anything else in my collections to date; I am very excited by this design and it’s such a pleasure to present it as my first original creation of 2012.
Happy Spring to all! The violets are out en force today!
oxox,
Dawn
Yay! I’m super excited that GdS is finally taking flight. Thank you Dawn, for turning my dream into a beautiful reality!
Carrie, I can not tell you how much fun I had working with you and transforming your vision into a perfume! I hope that everyone will love Guimauve de Soie as we do! oxox, D